Tag: astringent herbs

White Dead Nettle Herb (Lamium album): The Gynaecological…

White Dead Nettle — Lamium album — is one of the most easily confused plants in the British countryside: its stinging-nettle-like leaves produce no…

Walnut Leaf — from Juglans nigra, the Black Walnut — is the leaf preparation of the same tree whose bark gives Butternut Bark…

Lady’s Mantle — Alchemilla vulgaris — is one of the most beautiful and most clinically important women’s herbs in the Western herbal tradition. Its…

Avens — Geum urbanum — is one of those quietly capable herbs that has been overshadowed by more exotic imports while remaining one of…

American Cranesbill, Geranium maculatum, is one of the most powerful astringent herbs in the Western materia medica. Native to North America, where…